QUETTA, Pakistan ¨C Pakistan's security forces used drones and helicopters to wrest control of a southwestern town from separatist insurgents after a three-day battle, police said on Wednesday, as the death toll in the weekend's violence rose to 58.
Saturday's wave of coordinated ?attacks by the separatist Baloch Liberation Army brought Pakistan's largest province to a near ?standstill as ?security forces exchanged fire with insurgents in more than a dozen ?places, killing 197 militants.
"I thought the roof and walls of my house were going to blow up," said Robina Ali, a housewife living near the main administrative building in the fortified provincial capital of Quetta, where a powerful morning blast rocked the area.
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